This chapter is from the book

This chapter is from the book

As you move from page to page on the World Wide Web, you may wonder what sort
of intelligence exists on the other end. For example, how does that online music
store process orders submitted from its Web pages? How does the shipping company
display your package status? The answer is that some type of program is running
on the Web server, accepting input from you and dynamically generating Web pages
with the results. In the UNIX world, these programs might be CGI scripts or
C programs. However, Microsoft has recently entered this area with Active Server
Pages, a Web-server component that allows you to use your Visual Basic knowledge
to create powerful Web server scripts. This chapter introduces you to Active
Server Pages and some of its many features.